Astarte heriensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstartePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Astarte heriensis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Astarte heriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astarte heriensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Astarte heriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Astarte (Eriphylopsis) orbicularis2 sites
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) rigidus2 sites
- Cavilucina (Mesomiltha) orbignyana2 sites
- Cucullaea minchinhamptonensis2 sites
- Eonavicula gibbosa2 sites
- Eonavicula minuta2 sites
- Eopecten tegulatus2 sites
- Fimbria lajoyei2 sites
- Jurassicardium axonense2 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) hellica2 sites
- Limatula cerealis2 sites
- Limopsis minima2 sites
- Lithophaga fabella2 sites
- Lopha costata2 sites
- Mesolinga cardioides2 sites
- Modiolus buckmani2 sites
- Myoconcha actaeon2 sites
- Mytilus (Falcimytilus) tumidus2 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 sites
- Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni2 sites
- Opis (Coelopis) piettei2 sites
- Opis (Trigonopis) deshayesii2 sites
- Opis (Trigonopis) thonensis2 sites
- Parallelodon hirsonensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Astarte heriensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Astarte heriensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Astarte heriensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAstarte through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1969